To clarify my earlier remarks, Bruce, I don’t think it is necessary to be religious to be a conservative, as we understand that in America today. I count libertarians as part of the broader conservative movement, and certainly religion is not required to their understanding of conservatism. But for us traditionalists, of whatever iteration, I don’t see how what we uphold as conservative can be sustained without reference to religion — either formal religion, or a sincere belief in the existence of transcendentals, i.e., the Permanent Things.
